Got it. FWIW, I don't particularly care for Ruby; for that style of programming I usually use Lua, whose syntax and semantics are quite simple. The existence o

Got it. FWIW, I don't particularly care for Ruby; for that style of programming I usually use Lua, whose syntax and semantics are quite simple. The existence of LuaJIT (http://luajit.org/luajit.html http://luajit.org/luajit.html) supports your argument, I think.